I am an avid marijuana user who wants it to be legalised so that I may smoke it uninhibited. C'mon, tell me why I don't deserve to.

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Originally Posted by NoSocialism.com You're right, I'm sure that the people in Europe are perfectly happy driving around in a car the size and power of my Golf Cart, and living in homes the size of my Dining Room. Hey at least they have their "Free" health-care system, I mean that's why they have to pay half their income in taxes and pay $10.00 a gallon for gas right?

It needs to be done on a state by state, county by county basis. Legalize pot and criminalize the federal income tax.

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Sounds better than "moron".

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State by state sounds reasonable. I believe that Tennessee had considered legalizing medical Marijuana, if I'm not mistaken.

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Deserving it is irrelevent. You would be able to were it not for the greed, corruption, self-righteousness, stupidity and cowardice of the people who operate the drug industry. I include among those people, the prison industry, the DEA, the Cartels, dealers-anyone who makes their living from drugs.

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain

Indeed. Laws are rarely made for public safety and well being, but mostly they have a price tag on them.

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"...what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson

I suggest everyone watches the documentary The Union: The Business Behind Getting High theres a ton of good info on the topic. I've watched it twice so check that out if your having trouble on your position...and growing isn't as easy as a common house plant. Theres a lot of work that goes into growing good bud, you have to water it twice a day, fertalize it, give it light for 12 hours a day for up to two months streight before you get a harvestable plant. Beyond that theres a fifty percent chance that you will get a male plant and you wont even be able to use it unless you want to make hash oil. Then afterwards harvesting and curing is fairly difficult from what I hear. After all this you can get anywhere from half a pound to a pound which will only last a moderate-heavy user maybe two months max without him/her sharing it with anyone.This isn't something that is so easy that every single person who smokes will do. Especially since most pot heads don't like using the same strain for to long, so most people will avoid this trouble and just go to a 7/11 if they had the option.

Also I've met plenty of productive cannabis smokers in my life, honors students, kids who try hard in school. One of the smartest kids I know does it and I can confidently say that its not the drug that ruins peoples lives unless they let it. Look up some names of important pot heads. You'll see people ranging from Carlos Santana to George Washington.

Any arguement against marijuana can be used for alcohol too. it makes you lazy or you lose your ambitions. well if you stay drunk all the time it's the same thing. if you smoke responsibly a few times aweek then it's really not worse than alcohol at all. look at our olympic swimmer, he didn't lose his inhibitions.

it's one example of too much goverment power. it should be up to the states and the federal goverment should just butt out totally.

Precisely. Growing is not something just anyone can do..people need actual knowledge and experience to grow good bud. This is definitely something that most people would purchase and likely pay taxes for which would bring in sufficient revenues to cover any possible negative externalities.

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"...what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson